The enumerated powers (also called expressed powers, explicit powers or delegated powers) of the United States Congress are the powers granted to the federal...

One grants Congress various enumerated powers and the ability to pass laws "necessary and proper" to carry out those powers. Article One also establishes...

the enumerated powers of Congress and the Tenth Amendment. The enumerated powers that are listed in the Constitution include exclusive federal powers, as...

reinforce the notion of the Federal Government maintaining only limited, enumerated powers. Some legal scholars (including textualists and originalists) have...

(Amendment IX) to the United States Constitution addresses rights, retained by the people, that are not specifically enumerated in the Constitution. It...

vesting of authority, even though they are neither enumerated nor implied. The theory of inherent powers of the President derives from the loosely worded...

legislative body of the United States. Some powers are explicitly defined by the Constitution and are called enumerated powers; others have been assumed...

Court has ruled that this clause grants implied powers to US Congress in addition to its enumerated powers. According to the Articles of Confederation, "each...

Constitution of Australia enumerates the legislative powers granted to the Parliament of Australia by the Australian States at Federation. Each subsection...

some powers to the states. The Tenth Amendment reserves all other powers to the states, or to the people. Powers of the U.S. Congress are enumerated in...

(forbidden to be possessed by the states, or requiring federal permission). In many federations, enumerated federal powers are supreme and so, they may pre-empt...

within the limits of such enumeration, it has all the attributes of sovereignty, and, in the exercise of those enumerated powers, acts directly upon the...

which enumerated individual rights and another twenty of which enumerated states' rights. The latter amendments included limitations on federal powers to...

powers enumerated in Article I of the U.S. Constitution, but also a broad authority to tax and spend for the "general welfare" of the United States....

States Supreme Court concerning the foreign affairs powers of the president of the United States. It held that the President, as the nation's "sole organ"...

federation of 36 states. Each of the 36 states is a semi-autonomous political unit that shares powers with the federal government as enumerated under the Constitution...

well as other enumerated areas. Article Three also defines treason. Section 1 of Article Three vests the judicial power of the United States in "one supreme...

to U.S. law, reserved powers (i.e. states' rights) belong exclusively to each state. They are distinct from the enumerated powers that are listed in the...

emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces". The War Powers Resolution requires the president...

society. The United States Constitution grants extensive national security powers to both Congress and the President of the United States. Article I grants...

case, United States v. Morrison, and under other enumerated powers in a 2001 case, Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. United States Army Corps...

Article One of the United States Constitution states, "All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall...

signature). The powers of Congress are limited to those enumerated in the Constitution; all other powers are reserved to the states and the people. The...

amendments to the Constitution of the United States have been proposed by the United States Congress and sent to the states for ratification since the Constitution...

Whenever the United States Coast Guard operates as a service within the Department of the Navy, the secretary of the Navy has the same powers and duties...

authority to subject the States to private suits as a means of achieving objectives otherwise within the scope of the enumerated powers. However, Justice David...

contains the enumerated powers of Congress. Congress is authorized to "regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the...

Article 11. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively...

U.S. federal government certain implied powers necessary and proper for the exercise of the powers enumerated explicitly in the Constitution, and secondly...

the thirteen united States of America in both the engrossed version and the original printing, is the founding document of the United States. On July 4...